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Nov 11thReading 2: Beginners: New York City lowers speed limit

People in New York city drive carelessly and fast. They don’t pay attention to speed limit signs. Sometimes they cause car accidents and deaths. Many people were killed in car accidents last year. The family members of the victims (someone who something bad happens to them) asked the city to change the speed limits. They said ” We want streets where our children can run and play without fear that they will be run over (to hit someone with a vehicle and drive over them) by automobiles.” Today, a new speed limit of 25 mph (40 kph) takes affect (starts) for most New York City streets. The old limit was 30 mph (48 kph). The new speed limit applies to about 90% of the streets—essentially (basically) all roads where there are no speed-limit signs.

There are many goals behind this decision; The city’s mayor said that he wanted to improve traffic safety and end pedestrian (people who travel on foot) deaths. He said that many people in New York agreed that drivers must drive more safely to protect children and seniors (people who are old; elderly people).” The Department of Transportation, for example, wants to reduce traffic accidents and deaths by making people drive more carefully. The WHO estimated (calculated; counted) that 1.2 million people were killed and 50 million injured on the roads around the world in 2004. This number could fall if people drove slowly.

Road speed limits are used in most countries to set the maximum (or minimum in some cases) speed at which road vehicles (cars, trucks, buses, etc.) may travel on particular parts of road. Speed limits may be variable (different) and in some places speeds are unlimited. Most countries have a maximum speed for vehicles. Some have a minimum speed. The first maximum speed limit was the 10 mph (16 kph) limit introduced (was used for the first time) in the United Kingdom in 1861. The highest speed limit in the world is 140 kph (87 mph), which applies to some roads in Poland and Bulgaria. Some of the world’s roads have no speed limit, like the Autobahns in Germany.

Comments

that is a bad for our country to have a bad drivers and have a death statistic on roads. it happens for many reasons . at first in my country we do not have car with good quality . on of the cars that you can see on our roads is pride that have no safety . our government produce them with very very low quality and sale them with high prices . if we check the process of producing pride and the materials they used we never and ever do not use pride .
the second reason for increasing accident on road is that we do not have standard roads in our country , it happen because the engineers just think about their benefits and they do not feel any responsibility about what problems may happen on these roads . they just think about their money .
the third and more important causes for having high death statistics is ourselves . we never learn to respect to rules and important than it we never learn to respect each other . we never made force ourselves to respect the rules . all the times we said that rule is not work for me because i drive with my own rule , that rules are really stupid and etc . but we should know with acting to rules at first we respect to ourselves . so be respectful all the time .

i am wondering why we need to repeat every useful thing more and more but for negetive and unusful thing saing just one time is enough to convince us . why? almost all of our road have speed limit sight but why do people ignore them? when they ignore lows they be very happy and they say i do that and nobody could not do like me ? do we be proud of this kind of work ? for example on of my brother ‘s friend drive very very fast and ignore all of the sight and sometimes ignore the police and run away and at the end of all of this he says just me have talent to do that . why some things like this happen ?
in my opinion it has a lot of reason . first of all , these people want to show off . i think they do not self confidence and want the other ‘s attention . but they do not know it never does not work .
the second reason maybe has a cultural reason . unfortunately we live in third country and almost like other technologies that enter our country we do not know how to use them . we do not know why they are and what is the true way of usage of them . we just see them and want them without we know why . reason of using car in my country changes . it changes to wrong reason .
so , i hope at first we change , we change in way that know we want things for what then we afford them and use them , in this condition we improved . our children learn a lot and learn act in true way .

all of the transportation department around the word want to set rules to reduce the statistic of death on the road specially for children and seniors . every year they set news about limiting speed in streets and made force drivers to drive carefully .all of us know that driving with a safe speed can help pedestrian to feel safe when they want to cross the street .
but there is a very important question . is it enough to authorities set rules and limits for speed ? of course not . year after year punishments for drivers get increased and be sever but do the number of death decrease? there is a problem with this . in my opinion department of transportation before setting rules , should promote driving with safe speed .
essentially they should do some thing . for example they can start from schools to train future ‘ s drivers so children learn to why they should be carefully, they learn to respect to rules and they learn the important subject that is people ‘ life and safeties are more and more important from our interest to excitement . they should learn to control their feeling ever since they are child . they should learn to control themselves in variable situations and finally we should change something to our culture .